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You sound very closed minded. You confuse "not coding to your exact personal style" with "not a good coder". There's too much of that mentality lately, so I probably wouldn't choose to work for you anyway.

Perhaps we are entering another species failure mode that we will have to solve for. Computers and the internet are great gifts to humanity, but it seems lately to have taken a bad turn. Instead of uplifting the human race, it's starting to look more like a trap.

I've spent my whole life involved with computers and networking. Now at times I wonder if I will eventually regret my contributions to building this better mouse trap.

I personally find that the risk of a dark totalitarian period that lasts for hundreds or thousands of years to be more threatening than any terrorist threat these dark systems purport to protect us from.

Humanity needs to figure out how we want to use these new tools. All this surveillance mode machinery is not good. It just takes one evil dictator to get control of this to trap us in ten thousand years of darkness.

What's really dumb is having to say the horribly inefficient term 'www' all the time. With the way the computing world is supposed to make everything more efficient, it is horribly ironic that one of the most used terms is taking the only three-syllable letter in the English alphabet, and having to say it THREE times. Horrible. Inefficiency to three magnitudes, antithetical to the whole programming creed. So much better to have something like 'International Information Interchange' (The III) instead of "World Wide Web" (The WWW) Hell, it's quicker to say "World Wide Web" than it is to say 'WWW', how's that for stupid? The abbreviation is worse than the expanded term.